There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

UK Government Security Minister and Aberystwyth University alumnus Dan Jarvis MBE MP has addressed students at the Department of International Politics during a visit to the university.

The National Eisteddfod is inviting nominations for some of the festival’s most prestigious honours. Nominations are open until 1 April for the Sir TH Parry-Williams Medal, the R Alun Medal and the ...

In 1869, John Wesley Powell was studying layers of rock in the Grand Canyon when he noticed an unconformity in the layers. Around a billion years were missing, and the problem turned out to be global.

The federal government is pledging as much as $144 million to anti-aging research over the next five years through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a subject area previously ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

Scientists are naming new species after celebrities-and some choices may surprise you.